Wilson

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Synopsis

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a way that redefines our understanding of a tide-turning historical moment.

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson—the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the twenty-eighth President.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless details—even several unknown events—that fill in missing pieces of Wilson’s character and cast new light on his entire life.

From the scholar-President who ushered the country through its first great world war to the man of intense passion and turbulence, from the idealist determined to make the world “safe for democracy” to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity and the subterfuges around it were among the century’s greatest secrets, the result is an intimate portrait written with a particularly contemporary point of view—a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilson’s life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the icon—but Wilson the man.

Chapters

  • Wilson 61 Chapter12f

    Duration: 19min
  • Wilson 62 Chapter12g

    Duration: 25min
  • Wilson 63 Chapter12h

    Duration: 18min
  • Wilson 64 Chapter13

    Duration: 18min
  • Wilson 65 Chapter13a

    Duration: 13min
  • Wilson 66 Chapter13b

    Duration: 29min
  • Wilson 67 Chapter13c

    Duration: 26min
  • Wilson 68 Chapter13d

    Duration: 16min
  • Wilson 69 Chapter13e

    Duration: 08min
  • Wilson 70 Chapter14

    Duration: 21min
  • Wilson 71 Chapter14a

    Duration: 19min
  • Wilson 72 Chapter14b

    Duration: 18min
  • Wilson 73 Chapter14c

    Duration: 22min
  • Wilson 74 Chapter14d

    Duration: 20min
  • Wilson 75 Chapter14e

    Duration: 25min
  • Wilson 76 Chapter15

    Duration: 28min
  • Wilson 77 Chapter15a

    Duration: 17min
  • Wilson 78 Chapter15b

    Duration: 14min
  • Wilson 79 Chapter15c

    Duration: 15min
  • Wilson 80 Chapter15d

    Duration: 24min
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